Peter Pan's Flight closing for month long refurbishment after the summer

[Belowthesurface]

How much is it?

I don't recall at this moment, but I've seen it posted backstage before.

 

[devoy1701]

I may be in the minority here, but I don't want them to do too much updating. Cleaning and repairing, yes, but this is one of those classic attractions that I worry about being destroyed with an "update" to it.

compared to Disneyland's version of this ride...ours is laughable...completely laughable!

 

[ToTBellHop]

With the size of the average American, I'd guestimate 600 per hour. Probably half of the hourly capacity in 1971.......................

compared to Disneyland's version of this ride...ours is laughable...completely laughable!

The good news is that I saw aluminum foil on sale at the grocery store this weekend. Hopefully they can re-line our volcano.

 

[Bairstow]

I've heard 600-700 per hour as well.

It would be very nice if they could give it a Disneyland-style upgrade, especially to the golden pirate ship. The Disneyland version has a bunch of fiber optics embedded in it.

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

Disneyland Paris' fiber optic effects are even better (much so) than Disneyland's. They cover the entire ship in a dense curtain of sparkling light, not just a small part of the side.

I'm guessing adding the two-row vehicles Paris' boats have would help capacity immensely as well.

Though any sort of conversion to upgrade WDW's to the standards of DL and DLP versions of Peter Pan would basically require a complete gutting and rebuilding of at least 2/3 of the ride scenes. The nursery room and the flight over London scenes can probably remain mostly the same, but everything afterwards would have to be entirely redone from scratch I imagine. Not to mention any changes to the ride system itself to convert it to a dark ride that actually stops to load and unload and a reworking of the audio system and soundtrack. I'm absolutely in favor of bringing WDW's Pan up to the standards of the other resorts, but I somewhat doubt it'll happen any time soon with the ridiculous lines it consistently receives. It probably wouldn't take THAT long if Disney actually built things as fast as they could, but they probably don't want to close the ride for any lengthy period unless it starts getting no attendance anymore.

I do at least expect we'll probably get some queue renovation down the road as well as likely a facade upgrade. Though I don't know when. They can probably perform that kind of work while the ride is still operating, similar to how Pooh's queue didn't necessitate the ride's closure as work was being done on it. I'm assuming they're still going to eventually use the old bathroom space for something anyways.

 

[Belowthesurface]

I asked a friend in Operations today and she said the hourly capacity is 1075.

 

[The_Mesh_Hatter]

that's theTHEORETICAL hourly capacity... which is usually far from the actual hourly capacity

 

[Bairstow]

That's got to assume 3 riders per boat, every time.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Pan is a continuous loader, it's somewhat efficient.

 

[GoofGoof]

Any word on whether this refurb is still scheduled. In another thread someone reported that all of the interactive queues were canceled. If they aren't changing the queue will they still need a month for the refurb?

 

[Gabe1]

I'm just glad that it goes down the day after we check-out. We'll already be short the Jungle Cruise and Space on 2 out of 3 days at the MK. Another e-ticket loss would stink.

Eeek. Wonder how crowded that will make Space on the day it is open while you're there.

 

[draybook]

Eeek. Wonder how crowded that will make Space on the day it is open while you're there.

Well, Space was listed as down on Thursday(9/26), but it was open with no FP for the day. So luckily, my wife and daughter got two days of mucho rides on it.

 

[Sped2424]

I don't see how the moving water on the floor would be hard to do for our refurb or adding fiber optic stars on the wall.

 

[JimboJones123]

At least fix the godawful spray painted fallijg apart foil inside the volcano. My kids' science projects look better than that does.

 

[Gabe1]

Well, Space was listed as down on Thursday(9/26), but it was open with no FP for the day. So luckily, my wife and daughter got two days of mucho rides on it.

Been hearing it is darker and smoother, except the end, that I heard is quite the new jolt. Hope they fix that part. Did they like it better?

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Any updates on this?

 

[Mr Bill]

From what I've heard, most of the work was infrastructure-related. Maybe some general cleaning up as well, but that's about it.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Jungle Cruise was closed for a similar length of time, but managed to get a lot of work done. I was hoping that with this being a much smaller ride they could at least replace the figures and give everything new paint.

 

[Belowthesurface]

Fresh coats of paint!

 

[MerlinTheGoat]

They've managed to marvelously clean up bigger rides in less time (Jungle Cruise), so I see no reason they can't give Peter Pan an excellent cleanup as well. It's too bad they won't bring it up to the standards of the versions in CA and Paris though.